[theforum] how big is evolt.org?
David Kaufman
david at gigawatt.com
Sat Nov 29 22:41:16 CST 2008
Hi Erika,
"Erika" <ekm at seastorm.com> wrote:
> Ok, it's time to start thinking about the press circuit.
> :)
>
> One question I have, is how big is evolt.org?
>
> I am trying to describe us in terms of size/successes... what is our web
> traffic like
That's a vague question... :-) but I'll take a stab.
These web stats are from (an old version of) AWStats
running on tempest:
======================================================
November 2008
www.evolt.org
Unique visitors 118,379
Number of visits 221,257 (1.86 visits/visitor)
Page Views 430,004 (1.94 pages/visit)
Bandwidth 14.52 GB (68.8 KB/visit)
lists.evolt.org
Unique visitors 250,788
Number of visits 351,558 (1.4 visits/visitor)
Page Views 779,848 (2.21 pages/visit)
Bandwidth 7.92 GB (23.62 KB/visit)
browsers.evolt.org
Unique visitors 30,603
Number of visits 37,400 (1.22 visits/visitor)
Page Views 146,194 (3.9 pages/visit)
Bandwidth 2.46 GB (69.07 KB/visit)
======================================================
Note that page views are down significantly across the board,
compared with the same period last year:
======================================================
November 2007
www.evolt.org
Unique visitors 130,176
Number of visits 280,505 (2.15 visits/visitor)
Page Views 564,469 (2.01 pages/visit)
Bandwidth 18.89 GB (70.61 KB/visit)
lists.evolt.org
Unique visitors 303,485
Number of visits 447,365 (1.47 visits/visitor)
Page Views 987,320 (2.2 pages/visit)
Bandwidth 11.50 GB (26.95 KB/visit)
browsers.evolt.org
Unique visitors 33,674
Number of visits 42,128 (1.25 visits/visitor)
Page Views 207,020 (4.91 pages/visit)
Bandwidth 3.42 GB (85.13 KB/visit)
======================================================
The key number I always look at is page views. That's what
the ad revenue is based on.
It should be noted that these are the numbers AWStats reports as
"viewed traffic". It separately reports "Not viewed traffic" (that
coming from spiders, crawlers and bots (oh, my!)). So while these
are the numbers that interest me for ad-revenue purposes -- they do
a decent job of only slightly overestimating the number of pages
Google AdSense reports as being human-viewed -- the actual number
of hits, visitors and visits, as well as the *raw* http bandwidth,
are actually like 50% higher (yeah, the bot hits are insane!)
> ...what is our membership like
We have members? Where do I sign up? Will I have to pay dues?
I know you mean WEO/Drupal users, but I don't think having registered a web
login on WEO constitutes "membership". It may be an interesting number,
but please don't label that number "Members" (especially when on the press
circuit!). There may be large numbers of visitors who've registered in
order
to post a single comment, but who neither frequent the site nor subscribe
to
the list, and would never consider themselves "members of evolt" while,
conversely, I'm sure there are many subscribed to the list, perhaps for
years, who (whether we'd recognize their names or whether they are
long-time
lurkers) *would* consider themselves members of this community, even though
they may have never (being the lurky type) felt compelled to registered on
the website.
> how many articles have we published?
Someone else will have to take this one. Drupal is not my strong suit!
> Better ways to measure success/size of evolt?
Authors who have contributed articles, maybe?
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-dave
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